Allnic/ZL Technologies T-2000 30th
The T-2000 30th delivers two compelling tube voices: triode warmth and dimensionality for intimate listening, or tetrode control for taut bass, punch and neutral clarity. Part Time Audiophile and Audiodrom highlight its layered imaging, fine detail and musical ease—making this a seriously versatile, high-end integrated amplifier.
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Sound Quality
92/100
Build Quality
90/100
Value for Money
92/100
Pros
Switchable triode and tetrode operation provides genuinely distinct presentations: warm, richly textured intimacy or more linear, powerful control.
Tetrode mode delivers tight, well-defined deep bass, greater punch and stronger dynamic development with demanding speakers.
Layered spatial presentation, palpable imaging and fine low-level detail bring instruments and voices vividly into focus.
Cons
Triode mode sacrifices some transient precision, ultimate low-bass definition and large-scale dynamics versus tetrode operation.
Its 36kg/over-80lb chassis is substantial to move and may be awkward to accommodate on a typical equipment rack.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 92/100
Reviewers describe an unusually versatile tube presentation: triode mode is warm, liquid and richly textured, while tetrode mode is more linear, open and controlled. Fine detail, layered spatial presentation and strong low-frequency definition in tetrode operation are recurring strengths, though triode mode gives up some transient precision and low-bass definition.
Transparency Resolution
93/100
Audiodrom heard piano hammers and conga strokes clearly, saying the amplifier does not obscure the small details that matter in high-end playback. Part-Time Audiophile likewise praised tetrode mode for its neutral, highly linear presentation and careful handling of the frequency extremes.
Tonal Balance Musicality
94/100
The triode setting is repeatedly characterized as warm, liquid, rich and SET-like, with a strong sense of human presence in voices and instruments. Tetrode operation offers a contrasting neutral and linear character, making the amplifier appealing to listeners who want to tune the presentation to recordings and taste.
Dynamics
88/100
Audiodrom found springy dynamics and described tetrode operation as more open, punchier and better controlled. Part-Time Audiophile heard tight, well-defined deep bass in tetrode mode, but both reviews indicate that triode operation trades away some transient accuracy, ultimate bass definition and large-scale dynamic development.
Soundstage Imaging
93/100
Audiodrom praised palpable imaging, a three-dimensional stage and richly layered space in which instruments and voices come alive. Part-Time Audiophile found that the amplifier’s added sense of presence provided a tangible foundation for soundstage and imaging, while tetrode mode made speakers sound unexpectedly large.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
90/100
The 36kg/over-80lb chassis, substantial tube complement and large nickel-and-permalloy-core output transformers point to serious engineering rather than a lightweight tube design. Reviewers also note the useful triode/tetrode switching, which changes both output capability and sonic character; they say little about long-term reliability or internal fit and finish.
Value for Money
92/100
At roughly $13,900-$16,200, this is a costly amplifier, but Part-Time Audiophile explicitly concluded that the asking price was starting to sound like a bargain. That view is supported by its two distinctly voiced operating modes and the reviewer's impression that each is genuinely accomplished rather than a novelty.
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Specifications
- Output Power
- 120W (8Ð load, at 1kHz)
- Distortion
- 0.17% at 1kHz at 10W
- Frequency Response
- 20Hz-20kHz Flat
- S/N Ratio
- -80dB (CCIR, 1kHz)
- Damping Factor
- 8 at 8Ð load at 1kHz
- Voltage gain
- +26dB
- Input Impedance
- 100kΩ (single-ended, unbalanced)
- Input Sensitivity
- 1.3V for rated power
- Fuses
- 0.5A, 250V, 20mm slow-blow (KT150’s) 5A, 250V, 20mm slow-blow (IEC Mains)
- Tubes
- KT170 x 4 (power triode) D3a x 4 (second stage drivers) 6J4 x 2 (first stage driver)
- Dimensions(WDH)
- 440mm x 480mm x 300mm
- Weight
- 36kg net
Manufacturer's Description — Allnic/ZL Technologies
Beauty, grace, and power. Along with amazing, revelatory clarity, incredible dynamics and drive, articulate and powerful bass, and standard setting low noise and distortion, the T-2000 30th Anniversary provides 120 watts per channel of push-pull, pentode power or more than 60 watts SET sounding watts in triode mode; AND pentode/triode switching is “on the fly”. The T-2000 30th Anniversary offers finesse, delicacy and detail with stable, resolute power in the proverbial velvet glove.
- 120 watts of high power output in pentode mode
- More than 60 watts of “SET like” power output in triode mode
- On-the-fly pentode/triode switching
- In-house manufactured, 61 stepped, constant impedance, silver contact attenuator
- Analog power tube current monitoring meters
- Soft-start Circuitry
The T-2000 30th Anniversary has the following features:
• 120 watts of high power output. The T-2000 30th Anniversary is a push-pull, KT170 power tube based stereo integrated amplifier.
• Remote controlled 61-step constant impedance silver contact attenuator. The T-2000 30th Anniversary employs this house made quality attenuator instead of standard, outsourced carbon film potentiometers. The Allnic attenuator provides complete channel balance and less distortion.
• Powerful Driving Circuitry. Allnic believes in the importance of using high-quality, low noise and powerful driving circuitry in all its amplifying devices. The T-2000 30th Anniversary uses only two stages of driving circuit.
• “Full Engagement” Output Transformers. Conventional output transformers use pre-set secondary windings to accommodate 4, 8 and 16 ohm loudspeaker loads. However, these conventional transformers utilize only one secondary winding at a time, while the other secondary windings remain “idle”. This approach has two adverse effects. First, the output transformers are not working at their maximum efficiency, reducing their output relative to their potential. Second, the “idle” windings are not actually “idle”; they are subject to parasitic oscillations, producing their own “signal”. This undesirable electrical information is additive to the transformer’s output, distorting the amplified signal going to the loudspeaker. Allnic’s “Full Engagement” transformers address these issues by having 4 independent, secondary windings that are always fully connected, never “idled”. This means that all secondary windings are always connected to your loudspeakers, regardless of which output switch position you use (4 ohms or 8 ohms or 8 ohms or 16 ohms, depending on the factory configuration you have selected). The result is that there is neither a loss of transformer output efficiency, nor the introduction into the output signal of distortion from parasitic oscillations of the secondary windings.
• Large Nickel/FeSi Core Output Transformers. As with our other models, Allnic uses very large output transformers (114 mm) with nickel, mixed with FeSi, cores. This provides for higher inductance with fewer windings than other designs can provide and results in the great benefit of an extremely wide range of output frequencies.
• “Soft-start” Circuitry. Allnic uses soft start circuitry that, after sufficient warm-up only, provides the high voltage supply to the plate of each tube. This protective design results in prolonged tube life and fewer and less frequent issues with tube performance.
• Analogue Power Tube Current Monitors. In order to provide constant current (bias) monitoring for the power tubes, Allnic uses a separate analogue current meter for each tube. The meters make it exceptionally easy to see the status of each tube at any time. The meters offer a simple, unambiguous indication of each tube’s status compared to conventional LED bias monitors.
Allnic has completed development of the world’s first 61-step, constant impedance, “bridged” type attenuator. Allnic’s new attenuator is now the most sophisticated on the market, and we believe, without a doubt, also the absolute best sounding. With fixed impedance and no (± 0dB) channel unbalance at any volume level, the new attenuator will astound users with its elevation of the fidelity and purity of any system in which it is used.
This revolutionary and currently unique, oil clutched, motorized attenuator is the standard equipment on the L-10000 OTL/OCL preamplifier, the L-9000 OTL/OCL preamplifier, the L-8000 DHT preamplifier and the T-2000 30th Anniversary integrated amplifier.
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